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Let's start on a positive note. This week the CubeX Trio in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom printed something! Specifically, the giant hand ...

Today we were very excited to print  Henry Segerman 's stunning  Developing Dragon Curve  model. Henry sent us the file for the model so...

Today we printed elgolem's Chmutov-Schwarz   minimal surface model on Thingiverse, in honor of George Hart 's wonderful bouncy circ...

Today we designed a bracelet by using TopMod to extract a ring of irregular pentagons from the center of a Pentagonal Hexacontahedron wire...

Today we printed the Customizable Tree from Thingiverse. A lot of my students at JMU 3-SPACE  try to print trees from Marissa's Tinkerc...

I've been having fun watching the math that Mike Lawler ( @mikeandallie on Twitter) and his kids discuss on video at their blog mikesma...

Today's print is a Great Dodecahedron designed by kitwallace , author of The Wallace Line  blog and master constructor and compiler of p...

Here's my favorite fail from this week: a botched print of three  Fidget Cubes . It's partially my favorite because I happened to h...

Today I rest, and print atartanian's  Han Solo Lithopane  design from Thingiverse, based on MakerBot's  Customizable Lithopane  desi...

Our Catalan Wireframe Polyhedra series is finally complete! Here is the whole happy family of thirteen: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low w...

Or the Professor and Mary Ann , as they prefer to be called. Our last two Catalan solids are the Triakis Tetrahedron (dual of the Truncated...

We're almost at the end of the Catalan series! Today we printed our eleventh, the  Rhombic Dodecahedron , dual of the Cuboctahedron  (wh...

Most of our prints for this blog are made on a MakerBot Replicator 2 , since that's what we usually have at the house. But the other day...

I love to root for the underdog: David vs Goliath, Buffy vs the entire Hellmouth, the Baudelaire twins against Count Olaf and his evil theat...

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

At this year's Gathering for Gardner Conference ( G4G11 ) I gave a short talk about 3D printing sliced Menger sponges. So that people co...

Today is our largest Catalan print so far, with a diameter of over 120 millimeters - about the size of a very large grapefruit. One cool thi...

Yes, we seem to have fallen behind again. We can talk more about that on some "Friday." For now we'll catch up with the rest o...

This Catalan solid is the  Rhombic Triacontahedron , the dual of the Icosidodecahedron  (which we've already printed twice before as a s...

New fact of the day: If you add a pyramid to each face of an octahedron, then you are taking its " Kleetope ." A cool new word for...

Today's post is contributed by Bill Owens, also known as owens on Thingiverse. He is the creator of the Customizable Menger Sponge and...